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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
You can't just put a team in Hamilton. It's in both Toronto and Buffalo's territories, that's a ton of money that would need to be paid out to those teams to gain the territorial rights.
Not to mention, putting a team in Hamilton pretty much ends any possibility of a second team in Toronto. NHL owners aren't going to give up that cash cow. It could be a $500 million expansion fee. That's over $15 million in each team's pocket.
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I was talking to a gentleman from London Ontario last week. The feeling around there is an NHL team would thrive if an arena was built around Woodstock (between London and Kitchener-Waterloo). This would be outside Toronto's and Buffalo's territories. At one time, Balsillie was looking at buying a big piece of real estate near Woodstock and the 401.